THIS SAYS YOUR DREAM ABOUT YOU

Send me on a long vacation and in week two, it goes completely wild with me at night. The friend I have been at odds with for years is sitting with my child on a swing bench, my former roommate is in a relationship with my brother and the publisher I have a huge dislike for, comes to me to cry because she has been fired.

It all goes wild during the vacation only to return to normal proportions in week three. Freud called dreams the ‘royal road to the unconscious’ and psychologists still see our dreams as a window to our subconscious. Despite the bizarre personal interpretations we give to our dreams, there are many things we all experience at night.

The deceased

Your grandma has not been alive for a long time, but in your dream, you hear her in a way you couldn't summon during the day. It is a self-fulfilling recipe where it comforts us to see (or think) that the deceased is doing well. It also happens that people dream every day about the one who has passed away. Until at some point that person says: “You are doing well now, I am letting you go.” Now, I don't want to be a huge party pooper, but it is your mind that has organized this. To comfort you and make you strong. Beautiful, right?

The nightmare

Do you also have that, a period in which you have a lot of nightmares? That can be due to the use of medications that make a mess in your head at night, but it can also be an indication that you are too busy.

Getting tired of dreaming

Sometimes you wake up and feel like you have run a marathon. That can happen. Your body reacts to what you dream. If you are waterskiing and running like crazy in your dream (I never do that, but Jet probably does), then that will increase your heart rate and it is likely that you tense your muscles more and move more. And, if you are having a great time with your sweetheart in your sleep, then, well, you have a physical reaction to that too?

Determining your dream

Do you know that? You have a nightmare and realize that just waking up is also an option. You are free from all that misery. Those dreams are called lucid dreams and apparently, you can become quite skilled at them. I am going to focus on that; manipulated dreams where I just lounge, sipping daiquiris and shopping at Net-a-Porter spending my nights. That sounds good to me.